Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.